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Senate Commerce Committee Statement to Senate, No. 2305 (June 9, 2022)

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This is a Senate Commerce Committee statement to the New Jersey Senate on Senate Bill No. 2305, dated June 9, 2022. The committee reports the bill favorably. The bill requires health insurance coverage of colorectal cancer screenings recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). It also eliminates cost-sharing requirements for colonoscopies performed after a positive result on a non-colonoscopy colorectal cancer screening test. The statement says health benefit plans are presently required to cover screening only at regular intervals for a person aged 50 and over, or of any age at high risk. Under the bill, carriers including the State Health Benefits Program administrators and the Medicaid Program must cover the recommended screenings.

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“Senate Commerce Committee Statement to Senate, No. 2305 (June 9, 2022).” Archived at Pandemic Darlings, https://pandemicdarlings.com/source-documents/2022-06-09-scm-s2305-s1-04eed987a5/, SHA-256 b3b29318ddad222fdc7d5571a9b8618ce35ec5ac93485698b8ff9e64929772fd.

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     SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE

                   STATEMENT TO

                 SENATE, No. 2305

 STATE OF NEW JERSEY
                      DATED: JUNE 9, 2022

   The Senate Commerce Committee reports favorably Senate Bill
No. 2305.
   This bill requires health insurance coverage of colorectal cancer
screenings recommended by the United States Preventive Services
Task Force (USPSTF) and eliminates cost-sharing requirements for
colonoscopies performed following a positive result on a non-
colonoscopy, colorectal cancer screening test.
   Presently, health benefit plans are only required to cover a
colorectal cancer screening at regular intervals for a person who is
aged 50 and over, or for a person of any age who is considered to be
at high risk for colorectal cancer.
   Under this bill, health insurance carriers (including health
service corporations, hospital service corporations, medical service
corporations, health maintenance organizations authorized to issue
health benefits plans in New Jersey, entities contracted to
administer health benefits in connection with the State Health
Benefits Program or School Employees’ Health Benefits Program,
and the Medicaid Program) will be required to cover a colorectal
cancer screening recommended by the USPSTF. The bill also
eliminates cost-sharing requirements for colonoscopies performed
following a positive result on a non-colonoscopy, colorectal cancer
screening test recommended by the USPSTF.

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